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John Wilander's Résumé

Short Bio

John Wilander is a Product Security Researcher at an American corporation. He holds a PhD in computer science with focus on software security and has been researching and working in application security since 2001. 2007-2013 he was an active leader in OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project where he "did it all" – founded and lead a chapter, chaired a global AppSec conference, shipped a project, served on a global committee, and gave numerous conference talks. During his years in academia he was elected best computer science teacher twice.

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Product Security Researcher

2013 - now, employed by an American corporation

Member of the Proactive Product Security team at an American corporation in California.

Member of the frontend team. Responsible for architecture, infrastructure, and security in a RIA for online banking.

Software Developer, Authentication & Payments

2010, consultant at Aftonbladet, employed by Omegapoint

Member of the Paid Services Team at Sweden’s most popular web site (>2 million visitors per day). Developing, testing and maintaining authentication and payment systems. As an example the team designed and implemented backend services for mobile device Digest Access Authentication.

Security Development Lifecycle Implementation

Fall 2009, consultant at Posten, employed by Omegapoint

Project leader with the assignment to implement processes and routines for secure development and testing in a large developing organization with more than 100 active systems.

Developer of National Medication Services

Part of a scrum team which designed and developed a national system for data retrieval regarding prescripted medications for Swedish healthcare patients. Web application and web service. I had special focus on non-functional security requirements such as intrusion prevention and log protection.

Positions of Trust

Responsible for gender and equality issues at Division of Software and Systems, Department of Computer Science, Linköping University

1999-2000

President of the Student Union at Linköping University, Institute of Technology. Elected representative, working fulltime one year. Included being Member of The University Board, Linköping University and Member of The Institute of Technology Board, Linköping University

1998-1999

President of the Computer undergraduates section, Linköping University